CFT: if_bridge performance improvements

Kristof Provost kp at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 16 07:41:52 UTC 2020


On 16 Apr 2020, at 8:34, Pavel Timofeev wrote:
> Hi!
> Thank you for your work!
> Do you know if epair suffers from the same issue as tap?
>
I’ve not tested it, but I believe that epair scales significantly 
better than tap.
It has a per-cpu mutex (or more accurately, a mutex in each of its 
per-cpu structures), so I’d expect much better throughput from epair 
than you’d see from tap.

Best regards,
Kristof


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